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Gita verses, universal mantras, festivals.
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Offered a kingdom he had never asked for, he spent fourteen years in a hut — and ruled with his brother's sandals on the throne.
A ragged brahmin stood at the gates of Dwarka with a little beaten rice in a bundle — and the king came running out barefoot.
Devas and asuras work together to churn the ocean for the nectar of immortality — and the first thing that surfaces is poison.
An old woman waits a lifetime in a forest hermitage for a guest who has not yet been born into her story.
At the end he was calling his son, not God — the most argued-over and most reassuring story in the Bhagavata.
A dwarf brahmin asked for three paces of land, and the most generous of kings would not refuse him — even when his own guru told him to.
A cobbler in Kashi skipped the pilgrimage because he had promised a customer a pair of shoes — and a proverb was born that day.
English Literature
II. THE STORY OF A CAT, A MOUSE, A LIZARD AND AN OWL. CHAPTER I.
IV. THE MAGIC SHOES AND STAFF. CHAPTER I.
I. THE MAGIC PITCHER CHAPTER I.
V. THE JEWELLED ARROW. CHAPTER I.
IX. THE HERMIT'S DAUGHTER. CHAPTER I.
VI. THE BEETLE AND THE SILKEN THREAD. CHAPTER I.
III. A ROYAL THIEF-CATCHER. CHAPTER I.
VII. A CROW AND HIS THREE FRIENDS. CHAPTER I.
VIII. A CLEVER THIEF. CHAPTER I.
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